Asia, Australia, and Africa

News : Asia, Australia, and Africa

The Indian Association is to send 11 children to India for open heart surgery. The body's Executive Committee Chairman, Naren Mehta, said the children will be leaving on Monday, November 30, for Narayana Hrudalaya Hospital in Bangalore, India, where they will spend three weeks. (AllAfrica)

US President Barack Obama's trip to China and other East Asian states last week appeared like a routine visit, but it emitted some signals of major significance to African countries and the global economy. (AllAfrica)

China is making a big push to encourage greater international use of its currency, the renminbi. (AllAfrica)

The President of Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Dr Simeon Chukwuemeka Okolo has wooed Chinese investors to establish more businesses in the country. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria's dream of wooing Russia manager Guus Hiddink to tinker the Eagles to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, yesterday suffered a glitch after the Dutch tactician hinted at a possible move back to Chelsea, this time as a technical director of the club. (AllAfrica)

The Chinese government has warned that after December 15, all unclaimed corpses of Nigerians in various mortuaries in the country will be cremated. (AllAfrica)

The government of the Republic of China, following another diplomatic representation by the Nigerian Embassy in Beijing, has extended the deadline when the remains of all foreigners still lying in the various mortuaries in that country must be claimed or they will be cremated according to Chinese laws. The new date is now December 15, 2009. (AllAfrica)

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, has directed that Rosalind Sumner, an Australian love scam victim be paid the sum of N514, 212.10 and another $5900 recovered from a Nigerian fraudster. (AllAfrica)

The Nokia China factory at the Xingwang high tech park in Beijing China is a good illustration of what a high-value industrial park should be and can bring to a country. (AllAfrica)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Rosemary Museminali addressing the Korea-Africa Forum in Seoul. (AllAfrica)

A court in Canada has formally proffered genocide charges on Jacques Mungwarere, a genocide suspect arrested in Canada earlier this month. (AllAfrica)

The Federal Government has said that the Government of the Republic of China has extended the deadline for the cremation of unclaimed corpses of Nigerians who died in China. According to the Government, the new date is now 15th December, 2009. (AllAfrica)

Albert Einstein said several years ago that the hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Ronald Reagan, one time President of the United States of America also underscored the importance of tax when he asserted succinctly "We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him ' (AllAfrica)

The farmers in Kirumba Village in Rakai District have received vegetable seedlings to plant during the current rain season. (AllAfrica)

AFRICAN states are not devising a clear developmental strategy for regional economic communities, leading to international partners thinking the continent does not have a common approach and a vision for growth, says Egyptian ambassador to SA Mohamed Zayed. (AllAfrica)

Isaac Kawonawo ambition in the political arena won him an award allowing him to visit China annually, writes Robert Muhereza. Isaac Kawonawo, 29, resident of Kigongi Cell in Kabale Municipality is one of Uganda's lucky youth leaders who recently won the Chinese award visiting China annually at the expense of the Chinese government. (AllAfrica)

Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ebrahim Ebrahim, has urged Korea to quadruple its developmental assistance to Africa over the next three years. (AllAfrica)

Former Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad , yesterday in Lagos, stated that a country in turmoil would not be able to develop . (AllAfrica)

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), through the World Friends Korea Programme, has donated 25 computers to support an ICT project at Karume Institute of Science and Technology in Zanzibar. (AllAfrica)

Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad has identified sound education, intelligence, discipline, incorruptibility and empathy as qualities those aspiring for leadership of a nation should possess. (AllAfrica)

South Africa will participate in the second Korea-Africa Forum which will explore ways to strengthen ties on development and cooperation between Korea and the African continent. (AllAfrica)

Zimbabwe and China are negotiating arrangements for contract farming as the Asian giant steps up efforts to assist the country's agrarian reforms. (AllAfrica)

The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence against women, equitable access to economic resources and decision-making power. (AllAfrica)

The World Health Organization (WHO) initiated the 'Health for All by 2000' global campaign. While this slogan drew the world's attention to problems relating to global health, the failure to meet the target was seen by many as a testament to unfulfilled good intentions. (AllAfrica)

I want to bring the spotlight back to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) in 1995 ushered in a new era in terms of addressing women's empowerment and advancement. The inception of this platform carried with it a call for governments to accelerate their efforts towards addressing gender inequality. (AllAfrica)

Rising from a recent summit on Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) organized by a group of developing countries in Maldives to fine-tune their position at the next month's climate change meet in Copenhagen, zero carbon tolerance has been canvassed. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia. (AllAfrica)

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has disclosed that Nigeria and the Republic of Ukraine would cooperate to stem the tide in illegal trading in small arms especially in the West African region. (AllAfrica)

OUTSPOKEN Roan Member of Parliament (MP) Chishimba Kambwili, who was a vocal opponent of Chinese investors, has been awarded a contract to supply goods and install some equipment at the re-opened Chinese-owned Luanshya Copper Mines. (AllAfrica)

Below is a statement prepared on the 12th of November, 2009, by member countries of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) approving of the Sharm El Sheikh Plan arrived at during the last meeting in Egypt. (AllAfrica)

The following is the plan put forward by member countries of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation on the 12th of November, 2009, pertaining to further economic ties between China and individual African countries. (AllAfrica)